Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction-The third wave and the fourth dimension: communications and the media in the information age -- Order and disorder in the information age -- Reinventing wheels -- The third wave -- The fourth dimension -- To have or have not -- 1 International communications and international politics since 1945 -- Drawing the battle-lines of ideological war -- Extending the conflict to the Third World -- The real new world information order -- The new world (dis) order -- 2 Brushfires and firefighters: international affairs and the news media -- Foreign policy in the mass media age -- Public opinion and foreign policy -- Diplomacy and the media -- Cultural and public diplomacy -- Television and diplomacy -- The limits of television in foreign policy -- Agenda-setting in real time -- 3 Illusions of reality: the media and the reporting of warfare -- The first flawed rough drafts of history -- Framing the military-media dynamic -- The myth of the Vietnam Syndrome -- Antidotes to the Vietnam Syndrome -- Real war and media war -- Real-time wars: Desert Storm -- Our wars and other people's wars -- Conclusions -- 4 Mind games: information warfare and psychological operations -- Third-wave warfare -- Some definitions and operational principles -- From psywar to PSYOPS -- Black propaganda versus white -- Psywar in the Cold War era -- PSYOPS reborn: Desert Storm -- Military operations other than war in the nineties -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: back to the future -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.